NEW ORLEANS—The Justice Department said on Tuesday it filed the first criminal charges in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, accusing a former BP engineer of destroying evidence. Kurt Mix, of Katy, Texas, was arrested on two counts of obstruction of justice. The Justice Department says the 50-year-old Mix is accused of deleting a string of 200 text messages w...

The prosecution will focus upon low-level employees that can be used as scapegoats in order to protect top executives. No surprise here. No one at the top knew anything about a coverup. It was all done by rogue low-level employees on their own.